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Re reading one of the best books on WW1. The War the Infantry Knew by Captain J.C.Dunn. Everyone should read this book. Not better account of a battalion in WW1 from start to finish.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-War-Infantry-Knew-1914-1919/dp/0349106355/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392560297&sr=8-1&keywords=war+the+infantry+knew

Your library is a real treasure trove Wodin. [:)]

I do appreciate your recommendations. Thank you, Wodin. [:)]

No probs;)

A great read this one. Robert Graves and Sassoon where both in the battalion at some point and are mentioned in the book. Also Frank Richards who wrote old Soldiers never Die (His memoir) was in this battalion so i's a great companion read.

Just finished Charity, the last book in the Bernard Samson series.

Roskill's War at Sea series is available on Kindle for £1.24 each so that's my next project.

I also have Marder's Deadnought to Scapa Flow books to read.

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Roskill's War at Sea series is available on Kindle for £1.24 each so that's my next project.

A very big Thank You for telling, I'm eyeing These 4 books since a while, the paperpacks are prized about 200 Euros. You just saved me a lot of money!

Right now I'm reading Clancy classics Red Storm Rising.

wodin -

I read and thoroughly enjoyed another book that you recommended - Storm of Steel.

I will definitely pick up "The War the Infantry Knew".

Thank You for your recommendation.

Mac

Reading Dark Valley - 1930s the world powers.
And Bloody April the 1917 Arras air offensive. I don't think its going to end well.

General Lee's Army: From victory to collapse.

I'm re-reading J.F.C Fuller's 3 volume set of A Military History of the Western World. This is the American print of the original U.K. publication as The Decisive Battles of the Western World and their Influence on History.

IMO, the original title is more appropriate to the intent of the author as the book does not cover each and every battle or conflict that occured in the western world. Fuller isn't shy in his opinions and doesn't hold back much, my favorite is his observation that Marcus Crassus was both physically deaf and spiritually blind.

He segues into each chapter with a chronicle that discusses the changes that occurred from the era of the previous chapter to the topic of the next chapter. A very interesting sweep of history.

The creases in the spines of each book indicate that I have used this set for reference on many occasions, but haven't read them all from cover to cover since the '80s. IMHO, Fuller's work has a place in any historians reference library.

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Reading Dark Valley - 1930s the world powers.

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Read that many years ago - Piers Brandon - a very good book if I recall correctly.

Both classics..both superb.

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wodin -

I read and thoroughly enjoyed another book that you recommended - Storm of Steel.

I will definitely pick up "The War the Infantry Knew".

Thank You for your recommendation.

Mac

This has hit my Amazon wish list!!

Looks very special indeed. A book with no words.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Great-War-Joe-Sacco/dp/0224097717/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2VYVCXQRXDQX1&coliid=I1O4Q27OL7Y60W

Why oh why does work have to get in the way - I just want to finish the brilliant Third Axis Fourth Ally [&:]

I just started reading Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate 1918-1939 by Richard M. Watt.

Just finished Berent's Rolling Thunder, which is a free kindle book. First book in a five part Wings of War series. (Historical fiction )

http://www.markberent.com/about.htm

Finished Australia's Pacific War - Challenging a National Myth by Tom O'Lincoln.
 
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As I wrote earlier, he mentions a couple good points, but his interpretations.... oh well. For example, he writes that the US dropped the bombs "because she didn't want left-wing revolutionary insurgents to succeed in the DEI...." [X(] The list goes on, endlessly, no need to mention it all.
 
Now started Gordon Corrigan's Blood, Sweat and Arrogance - let's see what this writer has to say. I know what to expect...

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Ordered from Amazon - thanks for the tip Hotschi

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Wow...it arrived today... on a Sunday...

Amazingly fast. [:)]

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Having trouble getting into this at the moment [&:] Only read the Prologue so far, but do not find the writers style particularly easy to follow... Let's hope it improves....

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Wow...it arrived today... on a Sunday...

Amazingly fast. [:)]

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Having trouble getting into this at the moment [&:] Only read the Prologue so far, but do not find the writers style particularly easy to follow... Let's hope it improves....

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Scrub that I spoke too soon [:)]

The Prologue was difficult - and frankly a bit of a ball ache... not sure why?

But two chapters in now - and this is proving to be a really good book!

Glad you like it - I would be embarrassed to recommend a book and it turns out it's unreadable. So far, I'm also positively surprised by Corrigans book. No cheap pot shots so far - but I'm just past the introduction.